Discovery Museum Offers Free Virtual Workshop on Grandparenting a Child with Autism

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Discovery Museum Offers Free Virtual Workshop on Grandparenting a Child with Autism 

The online event was part of the Discovery Museum Virtual Speaker Series

 

 

 

 

What: “Grandparenting a Child with Autism: Roles, Responsibilities, and Supports”

 Who: Charlie Washburn, retired Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, of VSA Massachusetts and  grandfather of two boys on the autism spectrum.

 Donna Danielewski, Senior Director of the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH and mother of a child with autism.

 This workshop will explore the lush landscape of grandparenting children on the Autism Spectrum. We’ll explore the unique role grandparents—and others who fill that sort of supporting role—can play in a family with a child on the spectrum. We will share some of the unique joys and puzzling challenges that come with the job. We’ll discuss the grandparent’s chief responsibilities, special opportunities, and some ready resources to help out, including children’s museums like the Discovery Museum. We will also specifically address issues raised by participants in a pre-workshop survey (look for the link in your registration acknowledgement email).

Presenters, Donna Danielewski and Charles Washburn, are colleagues with years of experience working together with Cultural Access New England, a group formed to support museum and other cultural organization professionals working to make their programs more inclusive of people with the full range of human abilities and disabilities. They come to this conversation as a parent and grandparent with children on the spectrum.